Hey! It's a straightforward and answerable question about formatting!

lokier

101 pages

Posted
April 17, 2008 - 7:50pm

Hey! It's a straightforward and answerable question about formatting!

For the Scene header deals (I.e. - INT - BEDROOM)

If your scene goes to a flashback (I.e. EXT - VOLCANO)
do you add another scene description when you come back to the INT-BEDROOM After the flashback?

Moreso, if there's a montage of various scenes, do you add a bunch of these scene headings.

Thanks :)!

gzornenplat

116 pages

Posted
April 17, 2008 - 8:24pm

RE: Hey! It's a straightforward and answerable question...

You would have END OF FLASHBACK to indicate the, er, end of the flashback. There's no hard and fast rule, but I think a bit of Action to reset the scene...

END OF FLASHBACK

Alex is in a cold sweat on the bed...

...or something like that is useful - you have to think of the reader and put them back in the picture (as it were) but with something that adds to the scene, so it's not too obvious that you think they might be too thick to remember :-)

As for montages, obviously you don't want a full-blown slugline (since the whole point is that they don't really have enough content for that - hence the montage) but it's not easy to say what you need - it depends on how signigicant the montage is - is it in the 'plane takes off from New York'/'same plane lands on London' category, or is it as significant as the 'trying new chat ups' in Groundhog Day? Depends... (well, that's I reckon, someone else might have a better answer)

JoeTuesday

124 pages

Posted
April 22, 2008 - 12:03am

Flashbacks...

Hey--

You can handle it in a couple ways. The classic way is to add the word 'flashback' to the right of your flashback logline:

EXT. VOLCANO - DAY (FLASHBACK)

Any scenes directly after this one that are also flashbacks do not need the 'flashback' written again, but your first scene that is not a flashback should be written:

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT (PRESENT DAY)

--Nathan